AN ALL-MOM PROGRAMMED EPISODE! Yup. Since Krissy wouldn't agree to seeing either Thor or Fast Five (insert highly disappointed head shake here), this week we celebrated Mother's Day by watching 2 of our moms' favorite movies of all time: Tootsie (1982) and The Last of Sheila (1973)!! One of which Justin had never seen himself. Spoiler warning: at one point we completely lose it and then we lose it several more times. Our minds, what we're supposed to be talking about, etc. A lot of it is due to ...
May 09, 2011•1 hr
FIFTY EPISODES! Yeeeeaaahhh! We (somehow) made it! We celebrate by watching two fantastic movies that Krissy had managed to avoid for long enough: Being John Malkovich and Memento !! Why did she erroneously think both movies starred Tom Cruise? Whose portal would we each use for 15 minutes and why? Do we hit our one -Titanic- mention-per-episode mark? Does Krissy have short-term memory disorder like Guy Pearce's character? What the hell really happened in Memento ? Does anyone really know? This ...
May 03, 2011•1 hr
Are you MEGA SUPER DEPRESSED? Do you want to hear Justin get berated for picking one of the most downer movies in the last 20 years to watch this week? OF COURSE YOU DO, right? Well that's what we were working with as we belatedly paired 2000's 'Requiem For A Dream' and 2002's 'The Rules of Attraction' for an honest-to-goodness, slit-your-wrists double feature! (insert heavy sigh here) Like many episodes, this week's left us with more questions than answers! Like...what is Jared Leto's major mal...
Apr 27, 2011•47 min
Scream 4...was it worth the wait? Does it live up to the promise began by the first Scream? Or does it continue in the gutterball tradition of the ultra-crappy Scream 3? We cut to the chase of the meta matter in this slicing and dicing podcast episode! PLUS...we subject Krissy to a cult classic from 1983 (aka the year of her birth) for the very 1st time: SLEEPAWAY CAMP. Oh yeaaaaahhhhh! You're either on this crazy train or you're blowin' up on it in multiple dimensions, Gyleenhaal-style! The pod...
Apr 19, 2011•50 min
Well, we finally jumped the 80s shark, kids... with our first-ever TRIPLE FEATURE. Behold "Stand By Me," "Adventures in Babysitting," and "SpaceCamp" in all their noodle-curled, get-a-grip let's-go-look-for-a-dead-body GLORY!!* ("Glorious," incidentally, is not an adjective we'd use to describe one of these movies... Can ya guess which one??) It's a fun time this week, kids -- join us as we recount skewed stories from our childhoods, including 'A Tree Grows in the Sand Backyard,' and 'I REALLYRE...
Apr 11, 2011•1 hr 1 min
It's new movie DOUBLE FEATURE time, y'all!!!! We pull an illegal transfer to see 2 brand new films opening this weekend, SOURCE CODE and INSIDIOUS!!! Could this finally be the week in which we don't totally hate either movie? During the scintillating hour of cinematic discussion, we delve into our rambling thoughts on Jake Gyllenhaal, loud 12-year-olds during movies, Quantum Leap , movie scores, Dunkin Donuts, parallel realities, haunted houses, Ghost Grandma, Rose Byrne's musical skills, Viewma...
Apr 04, 2011•1 hr
"If I could turn around this cluuuuuuub!" What do you get when you cross a sober-ish Christina Aguilera, shiny-faced Cher and TUCCI (!!!!!) with John Waters' twisted version of Grease starring Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop and one of Justin's childhood crushes? THIS WEEK'S PODCAST, y'all. It's a musical-ish double feature with Burlesque and Cry-Baby (1990), 2 movies only a gay man with questionable taste in movies would love. Truth: we didn't hate them. But we didn't love them. Basically, we were stuck ...
Mar 29, 2011•42 min
Ahh, at last... Two movies right in Krissy's journalistic wheelhouse: "Morning Glory" and "Broadcast News!" Honestly, how she's gone this long seeing the latter is beyond us; especially since she sat in front of the poster for it every day for a year while in J-school (and apparently has a close friend who looks just like Holly Hunter). Maybe she was too busy singing with Jeff Goldblum? Either way, join us we discuss all things adorable, cretinous, and love-triangle-square-y. This podcast is rat...
Mar 23, 2011•41 min
Guess what? We got a fever ! And the only prescription.. is more cowbell pretty people fighting aliens! First up is a movie about aliens battling Marines in a city that looks nothing like Los Angeles (WE CALL SHENANIGANS!), followed by a 90s classic involving some blonde-haired, blue-eyed Caucasian kids who claim to be from Buenos Aires. Yup, today on Ye Olde Podcast we're discussing the merits (or demerits) of "Battle: Los Angeles" and "Starship Troopers." And two very special guests, Clint Chi...
Mar 13, 2011•1 hr 12 min
ROMANCE! Action! SCIENCE FICTION! Matt Day-MON! This week, we watch one brand new movie and one older selection with a similar theme: will love survive whatever the cost?!?!?!? Through space, time and multiple doors? Even if strange guys with fedoras and Etch-A-Sketch books don't want it to! Even if the time-traveling mailbox fails to function properly! LOVE WILL CONQUER ALL! Or something. Shut up, Chair Man! It's all romantic and you can't stop it. Filled with the spirit, we discuss romantic le...
Mar 07, 2011•1 hr 5 min
It's a Nicolas Cage double feature with an intermission of Oscar discussion! This week, we went to see Cage's newest 3D entry into the "give me my daughter/granddaughter back!!!" pantheon of cinema, Drive Angry . And then we watched The Rock , because Krissy had never seen it. The rambling conversation that followed includes Justin sticking up for Cage and his many hairpieces, Amber Heard and her newly out outness/hotness, William Fichtner, Sean Connery & Finding Forrester, Sarah Palin , Jam...
Mar 01, 2011•1 hr 14 min
It's another Netflix instant streaming (plus WINE!!!!) double feature! Why? Because after three looong weeks, we finally got INTERNET in our new friggin' apartment!!! It's a celebration!!! A celebration that involves one great movie and one not so great movie. And our first official (and Oscar-nominated) foreign film!! We discuss Wisconsin, polar bear plunges, Tony Shalhoub, brushing your teeth while working out, Korean spas, shocking violence, isolationism, sweet dance moves, the Duggars, the G...
Feb 22, 2011•55 min
The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things... Of Cusacks (both John & Joan), relationships (with your dad, boyfriend, or Swedish-accented girlfriend), and those with "special needs." Yup, J and K are CUSACKING OUT this week, with the 1989 classic 'Say Anything' and 2000's 'High Fidelity.' The post-viewing podcast contains lots of wisecracking, singing, and sneezing and even some snotting. (Ew.) Episode 39 is rated a friendly and tame PG. Aww, isn't that nice?
Feb 16, 2011•56 min
This week = all sequels all the time, as J and K try and answer the question: is it *really* better the second time around, as the theme from 'Step By Step' suggests? Well, if you're watching 'The Karate Kid Part II,' then the answer is YES. (Justin: "Did we agree on this? Cause I say NO.") But if you're watching 'Titanic 2'... Not. So. Much. Indeed there's a clear winner in this week's double feature podcast, and (spoiler alert!) it's *NOT* the movie that was produced by Asylum. Join us on the ...
Feb 08, 2011•51 min
ALIENS! Jumping at your face! Bursting out your chest! Obnoxiously spraying their acid blood all over you! What a drag! But do you want to know what's undoubtedly not a drag??!!?? The fact that Krissy has finally seen Alien AND Aliens! The originals without the Predators! FINALLY! (a choir sings!) Yep. As boxes have taken over our apartment for our potential move, this week we did a Alien/Aliens combo and had a grand old time trying to stay on topic about both! There's just so much STUFF!! Our d...
Jan 25, 2011•1 hr 1 min
Something happened on tonight's podcast, and without the help of alcohol, Justin and Krissy just got totally silly and WEIRD. J blames it on the coffee, while K blames it on her ADD. Crazy analogies and metaphors ensue, including but not limited to Barbra Streisand as an octopus (?), Seth Rogen's poor-by-comparison turn as an amorphous paraplegic sea creature (??), an imagined conversation between Jay Chou and Rooster Cogburn, and ZOMBIE SELENA!! Much like the former of these two movies, not muc...
Jan 17, 2011•53 min
True Grit/The Big Lebowski - A Coen Bros. double feature with two memorable performances from Jeff Bridges! Neither movie had Krissy seen before but only one would claim her heart in the end! The PG-13 podcast includes discussion about grits, a "plethora" of accents, crying about horses, Aspergers cowboys, Oscars, Roger Ebert, The Dude, L.A. in film and more!
Jan 10, 2011•54 min
The movies of 2010!!!! Which were our favorite films specifically covered on the podcast in 2010? Which 10 movies released this year would we each take with us if we were deserted on an island forever? Is Natalie Portman really pregnant? With like...a baby baby????? Oh well. We both run down our personal 'favorite 10 movies of 2010' lists, discuss some of the awesome documentaries from the year and even throw in a few honorable mentions that missed our lists for good measure. Need suggestions fo...
Jan 02, 2011•1 hr 21 min
NEW MOVIE ALERT! Who suffered for their art most this year in film? Natalie Portman as a sexually repressed, bullimic ballerina? Or Christian Bale as a crack-smoking, ex-boxing convict? Or BOTH? In an effort to make a dent in our ginormous pile of awards screeners, we watch both The Fighter and Black Swan! The discussion that follows includes much ado about Mark Wahlberg, Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and the 7 sisters! Plus, we expound upon the unraveling of Nina Sayers (figuratively and literal...
Dec 20, 2010•1 hr 5 min
DIE HARD! DIE HARDER!! DIE HARDEST!!!!!! Yup. J and K take a trip to Nakatomi Plaza (Origami Tower?) and watch and discuss the "heart-stopping" (palpitation-y?) movie starring Bruce Willis, the mom from Parenthood , and Snape from Harry Potter . Nothing's too off-topic for our daring duo, not even discussions about hypothetical terrorism at My Gym, the structural soundness of an actual Origami Tower, and the magic of car phones! This podcast is rated PG-13, once again, for liberal use of the wor...
Dec 12, 2010•47 min
On this week's 'So I Married a Movie Geek,' J and K hit a bittersweet note: mourning a loss in the family, they cheer up by watching a Steve Martin double feature: Mixed Nuts and Roxanne . Krissy's all about the cast, characters and farcical nature of Mixed Nuts (especially when it comes to hiding dead bodies as Christmas trees), but Justin's really just about loving Madeline Kahn Liev Schreiber's scarf dancing and Roooooxxxaaanne, in general. Also discussed: Steve Martin's love for art and the ...
Dec 05, 2010•56 min
It's a family affair for a very special Thanksgiving episode of SIMAMG! After a fantastic Turkey Day dinner (sans turkey) and a LOT of wine, we welcome Justin's dad Monty to L.A. and the podcast to watch the 1987 classic, Planes, Trains and Automobiles ! The spirited discussion that followed includes many issues with numbers, times and calendars, an explanation for last week's lost Footloose episode, Krissy's vendetta against briefs, Monty's review of coin-operated beds, talk of Ed Grimley and G...
Nov 26, 2010•53 min
This week's double feature includes two older movies with nothing much in common besides the fact that one of us had never seen either of them before: Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Joe Dante's Innerspace (1987) !!! We basically watch both flicks and start imagining what it would be like to have gigantic scissors for hands OR what we'd do if we were dying of a gunshot wound at the same time that we had our miniaturized friend in a syringe at a shopping mall. You know, regular day to...
Nov 12, 2010•53 min
Strap yourselves in, keep hands and legs inside the vehicle at all times, kids... Cause things are about to get VERY. Christian Slater! Winona Ryder! Shannen Doherty! KRISSY'S MOM!! Yes, along with Very Special Guest Cathy MacQueen, Krissy & Justin view 'Heathers,' and subsequently discuss the movie's light & dark sides, symbolism, Slater's Jack-Nicholson-esque qualities, and... scampi. Plus something about Bette Davis, stroke victims, $4M worth of water and the merits of strip croquet. ...
Nov 06, 2010•57 min
It's a PARANORMAL double feature on the podcast for the last week of (Scary Movie) October! (insert spooky music) LOUD NOISES!!!! For episode 26, we dissect last year's super-successful Paranormal Activity and the just released Paranormal Activity 2. What did Krissy think of the two after seeing both for the very first time this week? Did adding a baby, a fearful Mexican housekeeper and a dog to the mix mean that more stuff actually, you know, happens in the sequel? What could the third entry in...
Oct 27, 2010•47 min
Scary movie double feature time - yet again! This week, we take on the Chicago-based twosome of Candyman (1992) and Child's Play (1988)!! First time up, what scared Krissy more? A tall creepy black man with a bloody hook or a foul-mouthed kid's doll? OR...BOTH? The spirited discussion that followed includes the danger of talking to mirrors, BEES!!!!, Candyman's booming voice and sexy wordplay, choosing a frightening thesis in grad school, Virginia Madsen aflame, what toys we'd personally import ...
Oct 21, 2010•53 min
It's a Freddy Krueger double feature! Yep...continuing our scary movie theme for October, Krissy is forced for the very first time to watch A Nightmare On Elm Street the 1984 original and A Nightmare On Elm Street the 2010 reboot. Which one passed, which one failed the horror grade and why? The discussion includes how frightening both movies actually are (or aren't), the merits of Freddy synth and Freddy fog, the Freddys and Nancys of both films, Johnny Depp's staying awake skills, random Dr. Oz...
Oct 13, 2010•45 min
JAWS has finally been seen!!! (sirens!!!) How did Krissy go almost twenty-something years without seeing the 1975 Steven Spielberg classic? And why?!?!? Well at least she finally bit the GREAT WHITE SHARK bullet. The discussion that ensues includes talk about the movie's effect on ocean-swimming, Krissy's favorite Roy Scneider performance before JAWS, our 2 favorite scenes, the allure of Shark Week, the real villain of JAWS, punching sharks in the face, Quint's classic intro, Richard Dreyfuss's ...
Oct 07, 2010•39 min
How obscure can we really go? How about a 1982 kids film about a precocious little rich girl who's inadvertently kidnapped by a pair of bumbling convicts? Savannah Smiles, anyone? No? The movie's up on You Tube for your viewing...pleasure? For this episode, we even have a very special guest who just so happens to be a blood relative...Justin's mom. So his movie obsession can be partly attributed to her. We all three discuss the reason why this peculiar film was chosen, our varying love for Alvie...
Sep 30, 2010•30 min
It's a HELL of a good time this week as J&K schlep an hour-and a-half away to the Vineland Drive-In south of L.A. for a scary movie double feature: DEVIL and THE LAST EXORCISM! (And we use the term "scary" loosely.) You wanna know what's really scary? JELLY-COVERED TOAST FALLING JELLY SIDE DOWN. El Diablo is near!! And then there's the whole Exorcism movie... Time to git us some religion! Not to be confused with the original kid exorcism flick starring Linda Blair, or the later one with Emil...
Sep 23, 2010•49 min
